Second Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter]. (Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday.)
Mass of the Sunday, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
Yr B
[44] Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; 1 John 5:1-6; John 20:19-31.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Evening Prayer II of the Sunday. The Easter Octave ends. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
91st birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
79th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
At Rome, the entrance of Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, aged 17, into the novitiate of San Andrea, where St. Stanislaus was then a novice.
1640
The death of Matthew Casimir Sarbiewski, S.J. called the "Polish Horace" because of his poetry.
1767
In Spain, Charles III ordered the arrest of all the Jesuit Fathers and the sequestration of all their houses and goods, being enraged against the Society by a forged letter of the General (the work of De Choiseul), which spoke of him as illegitimate.
1802
Joseph Schneller dies in Vienna, a famous Jesuit preacher.
1872
Samuel Morse dies. He invented the telegraph, and also wrote anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit literature.
1994
Anthony Lawn, S.J. dies. Basically a prison chaplain, in 1985 he was invited to work for and be an actor in the film, The Mission.
